"Cuts of 30 to 70% are rumored at USDA next week. NIH & NSF funding is being destroyed & the agencies themselves facing cuts.

About 3,500 nonfederal entomologists depend on these agencies. We're🚨risking research that protects #ecosystems & #foodsecurity."

It's difficult to keep up with all the atrocities, but we amplify the gravity of the losing these experts, the firings, existential threats... of the #TrumpMusk admin.

#DOGE #Firings #Science #USDA #NIH #NSF #USPol https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/04/some-usda-rif-plans-take-shape-department-warns-employees-major-cuts/404247/

Some USDA RIF plans take shape as department warns employees of major cuts

Some regional offices are expected to be cut as some headquarters offices will be "hollowed out."

^{Eric Katz (Government Executive)}

Latest comic: First Amendment abducted

#uspol #cartoon #comic #law

Good to see that in 2025 one still cannot buy justice. Let’s keep it that way…

#uspol #trump #musk

So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.

"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."

#UKpol #USpol #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/fascism-britain-neoliberalism-opened-door-for-it-labour

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it

We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

^{George Monbiot (The Guardian)}

This week's comic: Zero dimensional chess

#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #journalism #authoritarianism #democracy

This week's comic: Playing the wealth card

#cartoon #comic #billionaires #uspol #oligarchy #authoritarianism #economy

Our top story: If the voucher bill were to pass, select private companies could soon be reeling in tens and even hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars per year. We took a closer look at who stands to gain the most. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-vendors-millions-legislature/

#education #politics #USpol #vouchers #news #schools #TXlege #Texas #GregAbbott

How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in Texas

The Legislature’s current proposals put a handful of private contractors in the driver’s seat. Other states have already seen problems.

^{Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)}

Musk’s #DOGE purge is causing more harm than the #firings -that needlessly upend lives, they’re devastating communities & reducing the GDP.

“For every $1 spent by the Parks, they produce $15 in economic activity. It’s <0.067% of all fed spending.

Parks have a huge economic multiplier. They create platforms for substantial pvt sector activity (tourism, REC bus’…) while preserving public assets that appreciate in value over time -an incredible investment for the economy.”
-K Scanlon

#USPol #NPS

Senator Schiff’s early votes to confirm some cabinet-level nominees have caused great concern among constituents. However, we haven’t been able to reach the senator or his staff in person or by phone to voice those concerns. We’ve only been able to leave voicemails, and some of us have received boilerplate responses to email.

Please contact Senator Schiff and tell him: improve your communications & stop voting for the Trump agenda!

#Resist #USPol #indivisible

Latest comic: It's profoundly weird to witness what is happening in the US as someone who came of age at the end of the Cold War.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #ukraine

"I think for the first time in 90 years, we’re going to see an interruption of #SocialSecurity benefits. I hope it doesn't happen, but I believe it will. You're going to see wait times skyrocket.”
-M O’Malley -fmr SS COMR

He said the current admin’s efforts to shrink the WF will send away essential personnel & jeopardize the agency’s most basic functions.

>73M ppl, incl. 56M seniors, rely on the #SSA for monthly benefit checks.

#USPol #DOGE #Musk #Trump #Coup #Resist

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/social-security-missed-benefit-payment_n_67c5d849e4b05a517aba7be2

Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley Says DOGE Cuts Could Interrupt Benefits

Donald Trump's purge of the federal workforce could cause a system failure at the Social Security Administration, the agency's former leader warned.

^{Arthur Delaney (HuffPost)}

This week's comic: "Protecting the children"

#uspol #comic #cartoon #children #education #lgbtq #climate #health #healthcare #transgender

"The Trump admin got Andrew Tate & his brother released. This really feels like a moral watershed. Everything else MAGA does has some kind of twisted moral logic that maybe you can see if you squint really hard. This time it's just "we love pimping." We keep reaching new lows."
-R Hanania

The brothers are charged with human trafficking, forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women +Andrew faces a charge of #rape. They're fanboys of #TrumpMusk.
#USPol #Misogyny #Evil https://apnews.com/article/romania-andrew-tate-us-04749679b90fad821c2b945955f5b145

"DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify. It only provides records for $9.6B in savings from contract terminations."

Neither Trump, nor Musk, can keep track of their egregious lies that are destroying public servants' livelihoods & lives.

#Trump #Musk #Grift #DOGE #USPol #Resist

https://abcnews.go.com/US/doge-now-saved-65b-federal-funds-impossible-verify/story?id=119174949

DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify

It only provides records for $9.6 billion in savings from contract terminations.

^{Soo Rin Kim (ABC News)}

#USpol
Use the following steps to send a message to your two Senators and to your representative in the House of Representatives:

First, click on https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member.

Second, click on the “contact” link to the websites for each member of Congress.

1. Keep your message concise and focused
2. Use your own words - avoid copying text from templates
3. Clearly state your status as a constituent and voter
4. Share a brief, personal reason for your position

1/2

Widespread protests across the US this weekend, even in some very conservative areas

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/02/22/we-are-not-going-silently-dozens-protesters-chant-downtown-christiansburg/

#uspol #protests

‘We are not going silently.’ Dozens of protesters chant in Downtown Christiansburg

Layoffs, education, healthcare, national security, affordable housing and the price of eggs were a few topics for dozens of protesters Saturday in downtown Christiansburg. 

^{Taylor Locke (WDBJ)}

Latest comic: What's the point of an economy that no longer serves the interests of human beings?

#labor #workers #economy #oligarchy #technology #automation #uspol #uspolitics #plutocracy

Bernie tells it straight. Let's hope his videos gain traction.

Absolutely mind-boggling that the president of the United States has to be refuted and fact-checked in this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM2kS6B8o

#uspol #Ukraine

Latest comic on the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

#cartoon #comic #economy #uspol #oligarchy

So maddening that the rest of the White House press corps doesn't boycott all press briefings until The Associated Press is allowed back in the room.
https://journa.host/@w7voa/113999029954090091

The White House Correspondents' Association issued a sternly worded statement while it should be leading a boycott charge. Which is what I just told them using their contact form, for all the good I expect that to do.
https://whca.press/2025/02/11/statement-on-white-house-excluding-ap-from-news-coverage/

And hurray for AP in refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico anything but The Gulf of Mexico.

#uspol #journalism #GulfOfMexico

Latest comic: Plutobrats

#cartoon #comic #politics #uspol #tech

I love this article, it gives me a lot of hope & it does make sense. #USPol #AusPol

Don’t believe him • Inside Story

https://insidestory.org.au/dont-believe-him/

Don’t believe him • Inside Story

Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different from what he wants you to see

^{Administrator (Inside Story)}

For the first time since 2006, there will be no women leading House committees. 🤔 #politics #uspol

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-women-chosen-lead-house-committees-time-decades/story?id=116764680

No women will lead House committees for first time in 2 decades

The committees will be dominated by white men when the new Congress is seated.

^{Lauren Peller (ABC News)}

Latest comic: Experts explain why America voted for plague

#cartoon #comic #politics #uspol #media #journalism #election #authoritarianism

Latest comic: Capitulation

#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #politics #democracy

Latest comic - From Dawn to Dusk

#comic #cartoon #uspol #media #election #politics

Latest comic: It did happen here

#cartoon #comic #uspol #USPolitics #election2024 #democracy #media

Latest comic: The Last Firewall

#uspol #USPolitics #cartoon #comic #election #democracy #fascism #media #journalism #vote

Vote as if you life and future depends on it, because it does…

#votebluetosavedemocracy #uspol #uspolitics

Latest strip. At the Lancaster, PA rally, Trump got on the subject of his mental fitness and stated “I have no cognitive. She may have a cognitive problem, but there’s no cognitive problem… Got no cognitive.”

#cartoon #uspol #USPolitics #election #election2024

This week's comic is for my home state of Pennsylvania and other swing states that will decide the US election.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #USPolitics #election #pennsylvania

Latest comic - Just a few of the horrors of Project 2025

#cartoon #uspol #USPolitics #election #lgbtq

Latest comic: Don't take the bait

#uspol #election #cartoon #politics #election2024